For each host a single line should be present with the following information:

IP_address canonical_hostname [aliases...]

Fields of the entry are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. Text from a "#" character until the end of the line is a comment, and is ignored. Host names may contain only alphanumeric characters, minus signs ("-"), and periods ("."). They must begin with an alphabetic character and end with an alphanumeric character. Optional aliases provide for name changes, alternate spellings, shorter hostnames, or generic hostnames (for example, localhost).

Slightly confusing the above . Dunno if localhost is the alias or the canonical name .
That puppypc12345 would be the canonical one, would mean canonical in the local network.
Since the above examples are like
192.168.1.10 foo.mydomain.org foo
and not
192.168.1.10 foo foo.mydomain.org

I doubt that your are right in this regard.
That your are false in posting to the Desktop section and also false not posting in the Bug section , that's for sure.
May I ask what your knowledge background is ?_________________«Give me GUI or Death» -- I give you [[Xx]term[inal]] [[Cc]on[s][ole]] .
Macpup user since 2010 on full installations.
People who want problems with Puppy boot frugal

WRT posting in the wrong forum, my apologies. I was reading WOOF version - QuickSETUP-FirstRUN "Personalize Settings"Bug as part of my research and just clicked on new topic without checking the forum. (I also got sidetracked as I had to reset my password - this is my 2nd post since joining the forum 2 years ago.) Hopefully a moderator will move to the appropriate forum.

I have no local network, so cannot make exercises about this.
I did set the hostname so it shows up as prompt with
hostname Abracadabra
PS1='\H # '
in an older Puppy, which seems not to care about any configuration files.

But in my newer racy_5.1.x busybox hostname complains when called with the -s option. Has to be set in /etc/hosts too, and it should be as you describe it :

And I have not seen any benefit to it, so I've reverted back to the original order Barry used for now. I'm not sure if go2null even stayed in the community long enough to test his own code on a puppy that uses it. Does anyone else see a good reason to keep his change in woof-ce? I'm not sure if the post by gcmartin he linked to has anything to do with this topic, but gcmartin's post is so long-winded and all over the place that I'm not really sure what he is trying to say (it sounds like it's more about having a "QuickSetup launch" and /etc/hostname with the unique number than anything about the order or /etc/hosts I think?).

(if go2null's change is better/useful, I'm sure there could be a way to keep it and refresh/fix Rox at the same time though...)

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